Both concerned parents and activists who have no children have been flooding school board meetings across the country yelling and threatening each other over critical race theory. The question is, should we be teaching our children American History starting with our Founding Fathers and the American Revolution when we won our liberty from the British in 1776, or should we teach our children that our country was originally built on the unpaid labor and bones of slaves since the first slaves were shipped over in 1619 with the first colonists?
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Many historians view the 1830’s when the abolitionist movement was born in America, not 1619, and not 1776, as the key period in American history that truly started the long drive towards civil rights for blacks, starting with the abolition of slavery, then the emancipation of slaves at the end of the Civil War, and the granting and restoration of civil rights in America.
We will also discuss:
• The slave autobiography of Frederick Douglass.
• The stories about the murder and lynching of blacks in the book, The 1619 Project.
• The first lynching documented by the brave black journalist, Ida B Wells.
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